I never anticipated falling in love with China. "To know me is to love me". I love lots of jewelry, big dresses, lots of stuff; an old hippie, not a granola but a stylish hippie. I wanted to adopt a child from South America where the food is hot, the music is hot, the ........... Okay so I'm a married women. What's scarry is that lately, I like traditional Chinese music. Ever listen to the Beijing opera! Not exactly toe tappin music!

So we are going on our second service learning project to China! What a great group we have! So enthusiastic, so interested, so caring. We have a newspaper reporter who will do a story about us and his wife who is a counselor I supervise. We have a school administrator, a high school teacher, a menopausal farmer, her sister and their 18 year old niece who lost her mother, her aunt's sister last year and an array of students; traditional and non-traditional. We have been meeting now for 3 weeks and the students are just absorbing the material. It's been fun for me to see their excitement and interest.